{"id":721,"date":"2010-07-02T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2010-07-02T22:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:37:45","slug":"presentation-a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presentation-a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation &#8211; a picture&#8217;s worth a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 106px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012 logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mkeefedesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/london_2012.jpg\" alt=\"2012 logo\" width=\"96\" height=\"73\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2012 log<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We all know the adage. \u00c2\u00a0We all know it&#8217;s true. \u00c2\u00a0(Okay, there are pictures out there that aren&#8217;t worth the price of the crayons they&#8217;ve been drawn with &#8211; the London 2012 logo, anyone?) \u00c2\u00a0But generally it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>So why do people use bullet points? \u00c2\u00a0Errrr&#8230;.. pass.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justaddwater.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nytimes-european-debt-visualization-02marsh-image-custom1-v3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image of debt\" src=\"http:\/\/justaddwater.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nytimes-european-debt-visualization-02marsh-image-custom1-v3.gif\" alt=\"image of debt\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">image of debt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently came across <a href=\"http:\/\/justaddwater.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nytimes-european-debt-visualization-02marsh-image-custom1-v3.gif\" target=\"_blank\">this graphic<\/a> recently, which I think nicely illustrates the point (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/justaddwater.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/justaddwater.dk\/<\/a>). \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s a very simple visual of who owes money to whom, in Europe. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s from the New York Times, which is why everything is converted to dollars but that doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at it, and think for a moment&#8230;. if you&#8217;d got to provide that amount of information in bullet points, how many slides would you need and (more importantly) how many people in your audience would be listening at the end of your presentation! \u00c2\u00a0(Actually, forget about listening to your presentation, ask yourself how many of them would even be awake at the end of your presentation!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the adage. \u00c2\u00a0We all know it&#8217;s true. \u00c2\u00a0(Okay, there are pictures out there that aren&#8217;t worth the price of the crayons they&#8217;ve been drawn with &#8211; the London 2012 logo, anyone?) \u00c2\u00a0But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}